CDP Presentations 2015

Presentations at the workshop on trade and LDCs organized by the CDP Secretariat, Geneva, 3-6 November, 2015

Productive capacity

• SESSION ONE: Graduation from LDC Status, the Development of Productive Capacities and Structural Transformation
• SESSION TWO: The Role of International Trade in Structural Transformation
• PART THREE: National Policies to Develop Productive Capacities and Promote Tradeables
• PART FOUR Making International Support Measures Work for Developing Productive Capacities and Graduation from LDC Status

Developing and implementing ePing

• Introduction
• Training part 1, part 2
• Implementing ePing in Uganda part 1, part 2
• Implementing ePing in Australia
• Implementing ePing in Lesotho
• Implementing ePing in Bhutan
• Implementing ePing in Nepal
• Implementing ePing in the Gambia
• Finalizing ePing implementation and ensuring sustainability
• The International Trade Centre and its technical assistance in the field of TBT and SPS
• Embedding ePing in other trade-related information systems, The example of International Trade Centre's market analysis tools
• ePing initiative: Improving access to Sanitary & Phytosanitary & Technical Barriers to Trade Notifications, briefing for the World Trade Organization LDC group

On 8 December, the Committee for Development Policy briefed New York based delegates and colleagues on the results of its capacity building project on removing institutional constraints in utilizing trade-related international support measures for Least Developed Countries. The briefing included a presentation of the new electronic export notification toolkit developed under the project (www.epingalert.org), alerting Least Developed Countries on new product-related requirements from trading partners. Addressing LDCs' constraints in using international support measures

• Presentation launching the Handbook on the LDC category (second edition) and LDC 2015 Country Snapshots
• Presentations at the briefing for delegations organized by the CDP Secretariat New York, 25 June, 2015
  • Overview: graduation from the least developed country category
  • LDC criteria and graduation eligibility
  • International Support Measures for the least developed countries
  • Support Measures Portal for LDCs
  • Ex-ante impact assessment of likely consequences of graduation
  • The graduation process
• Presentation by Stephan Klasen at the Ministerial Meeting of African LDCs, 8 June, 2015, Milan
• Presentation by Ana Cortez and Matthias Bruckner at the Briefing on the 2015 triennial review of the list of LDCs, 21 May 2015, New York